Quotes with simple

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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bob Hoskins One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.
    Bob Hoskins
    English actor (1942 - 2014)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Butch Trucks Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa Our reason for withdrawal is simple. We are party to too many regional trading organisations. The sum effect of this means that our membership is extremely costly to sustain and we must rationalise our participation in such ventures.
    Reason for withdrawal from COMESA, September 1999
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Peggy Noonan Part of courage is simple consistency.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Richard Deupree Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Doug Horton Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Albert Einstein Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • J. G. Ballard Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bernard Crick Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Stein Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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